THE remarkable story of the man whose charitable work led to the birth of Celtic Football Club is to be brought to the stage in a new Glasgow production.

AT THE outbreak of World War I in August 1914, the regularity of the Derry boat sailings began to dwindle, as U-boat activity in the North Atlantic made a dangerous journey much more hazardous. Ships like The Thistle were re-commissioned for war service and only returned to Derry quay after the conflict. This, however, was at a time when Ireland’s conflict with Britain for its national independence was just getting underway and in which the Derry boat would play an important

THE 1916 Rising Centenary Committee (Scotland) are bringing yet another free talk to entertain and enthral Scotland’s Irish community later this month.

EXCLUSIVE IRELAND'S President Catherine Connolly travels to Scotland today for a four-day visit during which time she will explore the links between Scotland and Ireland, spend time meeting the Irish community here and meet with key political figures.

IRISH community and cultural organisations have spoken out strongly against organised attacks against immigrant communities in Scotland, and against fascist-style assemblies which have taken place in both Glasgow and Edinburgh.

MALONES Glasgow—the Irish bar on Sauchiehall Lane in the city centre—has become one of the first venues in the heart of Glasgow to pour Beamish Irish Stout and drinkers emptied the taps within 36 hours!

IN 2017, the Irish language television channel, TG4, broadcast a programme, Bus Ghlaschú, about the bus services between Donegal and Glasgow that acted as a vital link between the two places. It was so popular that it was also picked up by BBC Alba, the Scottish Gaelic channel and would have reminded many people of the long and difficult journey as well as the many happy reunions enabled by the bus.

A NEW football club with Irish roots is beginning its journey in Glasgow, bringing together community, culture and sport under one identity.

BELFAST. June 2026. Burnt out homes. Terrified families fleeing in the night. We’ve been here before. A knife attack by Hadi Alodid, a Sudanese asylum seeker in Nationalist North Belfast, triggered anti-immigration riots by Union Jack clad mobs. Loyalist-led pogroms are not new, but their target is. Catholic Irish have been replaced by people of colour.

IT'S BEEN 12 years since Glasgow hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 23rd iteration of the event—the 2026 Glasgow games—has now kicked off again in the city, far sooner than anyone would have predicted back in 2014.

AN ATTENTIVE audience of family, friends and invited guests—including Theresa C Gallagher, chair of Comhaltas in Britain and Rosemarie Cassidy, chair of the Scottish Region of Comhaltas—enjoyed the St James the Great Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Branch’s annual summer concert in Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, Glasgow recently.

GROWING up in East Kilbride in the 1960s was a bit surreal. As the first new town in Scotland, it was a bit of a social experiment and, by extension, its residents were the guinea pigs.

IT'S NOT every day we hear that a Glasgow Irishman has received the highest honour within the world of science, but that recently came true.

JAMES Connolly's life and legacy was celebrated in both Edinburgh and Glasgow recently via a special commemorative event and a brand new play.

GLASGOW'S Irish community joined the parishioners of St Mary of the Assumption in the Calton to commemorate National Famine Memorial Day on Sunday May 17.

HOLY Cross Church in Crosshill was packed to the rafters for Charlie Devlin’s Requiem Mass, a sign of just how highly valued and deeply admired he was in a remarkable life.

THE scenes of targeted violence in Glasgow in the aftermath of an attempted murder in Belfast shocked people across Scotland, and have prompted comment from a variety of Irish community organisations.

McGINLEY Coach Travel has announced the return of its popular summer service from Glasgow City Centre to County Donegal, offering passengers a seamless and stress-free way to travel across the water.

AT THE recent civic St Patrick’s Day Festival Parade in Glasgow, there was a familiar face among all the flags being held aloft.

ON THE night of Saturday March 11, 1923, more than 100 Irishmen and women across Britain were rudely awoken by police, arrested, before being bundled into train carriages and taken to ports across the country. Amid much confusion, these men and women were transported by boat (above) to Ireland and imprisoned. Their crime: anti-Treaty activities committed against the newly established Irish Free State, during the height of the Irish Civil War.